Wednesday, September 7, 2011

If you faced problems with the audio on your just installed Ubuntu, this is the simplest and quickest fix that I can find online.With all due credit to those who found the solution first, here it is1. Edit the Alsa config file

sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

2. Add at the end of the file the following line

options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad

3. Restart the sound card

sudo /sbin/alsa force-reload

4. If your issue is still not solved, try changing the value for Step 2 to to something else other than 'thinkpad'. Refer to the list below.